{"id":53831,"date":"2025-04-11T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trade-war-heats-up-as-china-strikes-back-with-125-tariffs-on-u-s-goods\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:24:08","slug":"trade-war-heats-up-as-china-strikes-back-with-125-tariffs-on-u-s-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trade-war-heats-up-as-china-strikes-back-with-125-tariffs-on-u-s-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade war heats up as China strikes back with 125% tariffs on U.S. goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tit-for-tat exchange marks a major escalation in the ongoing trade war, raising fears of deeper disruption to global supply chains and markets.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement, China\u2019s Ministry of Finance blasted the U.S. tariff hike as \u201cunilateral bullying and coercion,\u201d accusing Washington of violating international trade norms and disregarding basic economic principles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international economic and trade rules, disregards the post-World War II global economic order built by the U.S. itself, and defies common sense,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing made clear that its new tariffs would take effect on Saturday, while warning that it would not play along with what it called a \u201cnumbers game\u201d of ever-rising duties. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the current tariff level, there is no market acceptance for U.S. goods exported to China,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s move to raise tariffs to 145% included all major categories of Chinese imports, although it excluded a separate 20% duty tied to China\u2019s role in the global fentanyl trade, according to the Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>The latest increase follows a pause on reciprocal tariffs for several other trading partners, singling China out as the primary target of the White House\u2019s aggressive trade strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In response, China\u2019s Commerce Ministry confirmed that it had filed an additional complaint with the World Trade Organization, escalating the dispute to a formal global forum.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s retaliation has started to take effect, with major European stock indexes\u2014which initially posted minor gains on Friday\u2014falling sharply after news of the retaliatory tariffs broke.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-85434 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg\" alt=\"A side-by-side image of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump. On Friday, China announced a dramatic increase in tariffs on U.S. goods\u2014from 84% to 125%\u2014in retaliation for President Trump\u2019s decision earlier this week to raise U.S. duties on Chinese imports to a staggering 145%.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Friday announced a dramatic increase in tariffs on U.S. goods, from 84% to 125%, in retaliation for President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision earlier this week to raise U.S. duties on Chinese imports to a staggering 145%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000085435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000085435,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-xi-rt-gmh-250409_1744211982875_hpmain_16x9.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53831"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53831"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}